Word Meanings - REDUNDANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot. 2. Using more worrds or images than

Additional info about word: REDUNDANT

1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot. 2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. I. Watts. Syn. -- Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REDUNDANT)

• addition
• Adventitious
• superfluous
• redundant
• alien
• artificial
• spurious
• smuggled
• Extrinsic
• adscititious irregular
• casual
• imported
• Pleonastic
• Redundant
• surplus
• inconcise

Related words: (words related to REDUNDANT)

• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• SURPLUS
  1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• CASUALISM
  The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
• ALIENAGE
  1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization.
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• PLEONASTICALLY
  In a pleonastic manner.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• IMPORTING
  Full of meaning. Shak.
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• IMPORTUOUS
  Without a port or harbor.
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• PLEONASTIC; PLEONASTICAL
  Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• EXTRINSICAL
  Extrinsic. -- Ex*trin"sic*al*ly , adv.
• ALIENEE
  One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• IMPORT
  + portare to bear. Sense 3 comes through F. importer, from the Latin. 1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed
• INALIENABLY
  In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.
• SALIENT
  Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing;
• INALIENABLE
  Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.
• SUPERSALIENCY
  The act of leaping on anything. Sir T. Browne.
• SURADDITION
  Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
• NONIMPORTATION
  Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.